What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIALWork divided is in that manner shortened.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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